It's been a few months since I last searched and it looks like someone is finally selling one. DoorBird does the same cloud stuff as Ring but it's also ONVIF so it can run cloud-free. It even ticks my "nice-to-have" feature box with both WiFi and PoE support. $350 is a bit steep but I'm considering it.

My plan has been to get the T-Mobile free or nearly free ASUS router - I believe Wirecutter had its close cousin as the recommended pick. Has the advantage of being WRT-DD compatible. But may not be the latest now.

I know this is ridiculous, but has anyone used 10gig hardware, or even been on a 10gig network? I suspect that 2.5GBASE-T or 5GBASE-T will come up and be cheaper soon enough.

I work with 10G and 40G hardware when life takes me to a datacenter. I agreee that 2.5/5 GBaseT is probably going to be the next step as gigabit internet speeds become available for a large portion of the population

Sure - theoretically even 802.11ac can handle the bandwidth of gigabit internet. But the idea of being able to access storage on your file server anywhere in your home like you're plugged into it is cool. At that point, the storage itself can be the bottleneck.

Mokers, so there's no reasonable 10G hardware for consumers, is there?

Hm, good point. Mostly my bottleneck is an external drive having to spin up -- sometimes accessing folders or files requires a few seconds of "hang on, let me wake up"; suppose if I replaced that with a non-spinny drive, that'd take care of that.

Biggest problem is that so much of the consumer space is centered around wireless. There is just not a lot of demand to bring 10G hardware to consumers because everybody just wants faster WiFi, so that's where you see most of the innovation for home users. That being said, you can get 10Gbit copper over Cat6A at about $100 per port for switches and endpoints. While not out of the realm of possibility, I think you would need to get a 4 port 10G router with wireless to about $400 for people to start buying. Most 10G devices are switches. The Netgear Nighthawk X10 has one 10GB SFP port.

Looking for advice. Was tempted by the Loog Pro Kickstarter (I really should learn some instrument) but go back and forth on acoustic v. electric. They will offer a cheap amp for the electric, but that seems to limit the mobility/carry it around. Then again, electric seems cooler?